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PERSONAL MENTION. ? People Visiting in This City and * at Other Points. ^ ?Mr. P. C. Dukes, of Branchville, spent Tuesday in the city. ?Mr. E. E. Hughes, of Ehrhardt, \ was in the city Tuesday. j * ?Mr. S. W. Copeland, of Ehr- f hardt, was in the city yesterday. ?Messrs. H. S. Dowling and W. * C. Patrick spent Sunday in the city. c ?Mr. W. L. Warren, of the Ehr- c hardt, section, was in the city Tues. > day. ?"VTr R P. Zeicler. of the Ehr " -- - g hardt section, was in the city Mon- j day. ? ?Misses Estelle and Alice Smoak ( are in Columbia "this week attending j the State Fair. s ?Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hunter, of e the Hunter's Chapel section, were in i the city Tuesday. c ?Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smoak, of 1 Branchville, spent Sunday at the < > home of Mr^ Griffin near town. t ?Rev. L. E. Wiggins, who has L been absent on a European trip for ^ some months, returned home last r week. ?Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Brabham j ^ and Miss Belle Cooner went up to Columbia Tuesday to attend the ( State fair. ?Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Dukes j and children, of Branchville, spent ^ Sunday in the city with Mr. and jMrs. R. M. Bruce. t ?Mrs. M. A. Adams, returned t borne froin Swansea Tuesday night, r where she has been visiting friends \ # and relatives for the past week. C ?Mr. Jas. Izlar Sims, of the Or- r angeburg Times and Democrat, was * in to see us Tuesday, and we were t mighty glad to have him, but his . stay was all too short. Mr. Sims t was in town with several gentlemen ? * advertising the Orangeburg county a fair. r r Negroes to Die in Chair. t a Daniel Bird and Jake Moore, two t negroes from Fairfield conuty, will jdie in the electric chair at the State r . .. penitentiary here on Thursday, Oc- c tober 31. The sheriff of Fairfield e county brought the prisoners here Saturday and they were lodged in j cells at the death house where they f will remain until the hour of execu- t tion. e The two negroes were convicted at the September term of court of gen- f eral sessions on the charge of mur- t der.. They killed another negro man. c The penitentiary officials expect to 6 receive the commitment papers to- ^ day. f Since Sam Hyde, of Anderson county, was executed about a month , ago no prisoners have been confined t in the death house awaiting execu- ; tion. Three were brought to the t penitentiary Saturday; the two Fair- ^ ? field county negroes, and T. U. c Vaughn, of Greenville, erstwhile su- Q perintendent of the Odd Fellows' or- c phan home, who Saturday confessed g to criminally assaulting little girls c under his charge. His execution is t set for December 20. I The execution of Daniel Bird and j Jake Moore will be the first double execution in the State.?Columbia t Record, Oct. 28. j ^<1^? Cleaning of Restland Cemetery. * ?' J Everyone who owns a lot or is in- a terested in the appearance of our ( oldest cemetery is asked to take part 1 in the general cleaning of this neg- c lected spot on next Tuesday, No- c vember 5th. - There is a great deal J of work to be done there, and the c ' committee who has the cemetery m ( charge earnestly desires to finish this i cleaning in the one day, and so asks t for the co-operation of all. Let t everyone who can send a wagon and c team, and let those who have no t team come and bring a hand. s Ends Life With Bullet. Columbia, Oct. 28.?Worn and J tired of life, J. E. Aiken, a white \ man aged about 40 years, a carpen- 1 ter by trade, sent a bullet through s r his brain this morning about 5:30 f o'clock, at his home, No. 1,729 Two s Notch Road, and dying shortly there- i 1 ~ n "rifn rt.irrV?+ r?V) i 1H rpn t leiL a w nc auu ciftui, , . five of them small, to fight the bat- i tie alone. Immediately after the t man shot himself Dr. L. D. Owens I was summoned, but Aiken diecVsoon 1 after the doctor arrived. He made no statement after he shot himself, a The body was removed to a local un- J dertaker's and it is hardly probable i that an inquest will be held. r Aiken had lived in Columbia about g three years, coming here from Fair- c field county. He bore the reputation J of being a steady, hard working 2 man, though it is said he drank some a He- was out on bond for his appear- r ance this morning at a preliminary t hearing on the charge of carrying a a concealed weapon, the warrant hav- c ing been sworn out by Henry Ste- \ phenson. Stephenson was arrested this morning in connection with the I suicide, but was released shortly af- t terwards. a ASSASSINATED RULERS. Svery Country of the World Has Had Its Experiences. Aassassination has always been >ne of the dangers to which personLges prominent in the political world ] lave been particularly exposed, and lardly any country can boast itself < ree from that crime. Abraham Lincoln, the first of the hree American presidents to be mur- : lered, was assassinated as. he was : :elebrating the triumphant close of he Civil war. On Good Friday, < ^.pril 14, 1865, just ae the north was ' ejoicing at the end of the long * ? * fAt- V?/v + a/1 ' Itril?[^16 Willi lilt; ?>isuuix, uc ativuucu lord's theater in Washington to see < i performance of "Our American ; Cousin." An actor, John Wilkes : 3ooth, crept to the back of his box ?>on after the curtain had risen and ' ;hot him from behind. Then, leapng on the stage, he brandished a lagger, shouted "Sic semper tyran- ' lis!" and escaped through the stage i loor. Lincoln was carried across 1 he street to a small house and died ' here at 7 o'clock the next morning, i Lt the same time an attempt was ' nade to assassinate Secretary Sew- I ird in his own house. ] The next president to be slain was < fames A. Garfield. On July 2, 1881, J l few months-after his inauguration, < t fin itoji n a riisa/nnointed 1 yuan^o u. viuavvv*^^ w? ?c x ffice seeker, shot him down in the Baltimore and Potomac Railway sta- 1 ion in Washington. The avowed s >urpose of the assassin was to secure ] he succession of Vice President Ar- 1 :hur, who, he believed, would be J aore favorably disposed to the "Stal- 1 i-art" wing of the Republican party. I iarfield lingered for more than two aonths. He was taken from Wash- '< ngton to Elberon, N. J., and died ] here on September 19. 1 William McKinley fell a victim to he doctrines of anarchy. Like Abra- 3 lam Lincoln he had been re-elected .nd seemed to be about to inaugu- : ate a new and important policy in ' egard to foreign commercial rela- ' ions. He went to Buffalo to speak .t the Pan-American exposition, and ( here, as he was holding a reception, le was shot down by Czolgosz. The nan approached him in the line of ( itizens, holding a revolver conceal- 1 d by a handkerchief. As he reached the president, apparently intendng to shake his hand, he fired with , atal effect. McKinley was carried ( o a near-by house, and lived for sight days after his wound. Foreign countries have had their ull share of such assassinations as . hese, and in many cases death has >vertaken a ruler on a state occa- . ion, when he was making a public . >rogress to perform an important unction. So, on March 21, 1881, the Czar j Alexander II. of Russia, was blown i 0 pieces by a bomb as he was on his 1 vay to the winter palace. He had ] >een distinguished by his liberal < dews and his desire to ameliorate j :onditions in his empire, but he was itruck down through a conspiracy 1 >f Nihilists. So, too, a few years ago, ; 1 plot in the army caused an artillery ( ;alute in honor of the present czar ] o take the form of a discharge of oaded pieces in the direction of the i mperial household. President Carnot of France, was j he only head of a foreign republic j reside President Borda Idiarte of ; Jraguay, to be assassinated of late < ears. He met his death in Lyons ; Lt the hands of an Italian anarchist, ] ?aserio, who killed him on June 24, ; .894. He had gone to the exhibition 1 if arts and sciences, and had been 1 tnthusiastically greeted on the way. < fust as he stepped into his carriage in his departure from the building, i ^aserio sprang up on the step, wav- . ng a paper as though it were a peition. The guards permitted him o approach the president, and he i Irew a dagger and stabbed him in- : he body. The wound was mortal, ] ind Carnot died the next day. i One of the most terrible of politi- ] :al assassinations was that of King ] Alexander and Queen Draga of Ser- i da, on June 11, 1903. That little < kingdom had been torn with internal ; itrife, and King Milan had been i breed to abdicate in favor of his j ion. Alexander believed in drastic j neasures, and in a country seething 1 vith revolutionary and liberal feel- i ng attempted to make the power of < he crown more and more absolute, n particular he offended his subjects < >y his marriage. j On the evening of June 10, 1903, < t military conspiracy came to a head, i I number of officers forced their way nto the palace, aided by their com- < ades, who were supposed to be on ] ,ruard. They reached the royal j :hamber and were faced by King J Alexander with his queen in his irms. They demanded his immedi- . ite abdication. He refused, and im- ] nediately a storm of bullets fell on 1 he royal pair. They were shot down ] md the throne was given to Peter j if the house of Karageorgevitch, the ] >resent reigning monarch. ] The assassination of King Hum- i )ert of Italy, on July 29, 1900, on j he other hand, was inspired by an- ] irchistic feeling. A band of anarchists ; % KILLED HIS FATHER. I Robert Lawson Shot His Father in I Back of Head in Clinton. Clinton, S. C., Oct. 28.?W. F. Lawson, a farmer living near this place, was killed here this afternoon by his son, Robert Lawson, on one of the principal streets. The young man who killed his father is about 22 years of age and fired five shots into the back of his father's head. A number of people witnessed the tragedy and young Lawson surrendered almost immediately after the killing. The father died almost instantly. Young Lawson, now in prison, says that he and his father had not been on good terms for more than two years and that his father had made repeated threats to take his life. He and his father came into Clinton this morning from their farms with a bale of cotton to sell. Both were armed and doubtless trouble bad been anticipated. The cotton is supposed to have been.the property of the younger Lawson and shortly after their arrival in the city young Lawson was seen to be driving the wason across the square with the bale of cotton in it. He was ap- g proached by his father, who demand- I 2d the bale in payment for rent. The I son denied that he owed any money . and the father then demanded that j the son get down from the wagon. J When the latter refused to do so, the \ father, according to the young man's ( statement, drew his pistol and pre- 4 pared to shoot. The boy then ^ brought his weapon to bear and fired * five shots rapidly, all five taking ef- J feet in the back of the older man's \ head. ( Despite the fact that the man was 4 shot from the rear, the boy puts in a / ~1 -" -f ofarica qtiH sflVS that, if j U1 OCU"UViUUU^ ~ - _ be had not fired, his father would have killed him. The father did not Bre a shot. The young man maintains what may he said to be a defiant attitude. He does not express any regret or remorse for his deed, but contends that he but saved his life when he fired. Two Wives, Same Name, Bring Suit. Chicago, Oct. 28.?Two women, each named Catherine Riley, each of them also believing herself the only wife of Charles M. Potter, alias Newburne Brown, went to the municipal court to-day where they jointly signed a complaint against Potter, charging him with bigamy. Potter will be brought from St. Louis, where he was arrested tonight. Original complaint was made by the father of the second Catherine Riley. with headquarters in Paterson, -N. J., selected Angelo Bresci to slay the king, who had already, three years before, been exposed to anarchistic bullets. The king went to Monza to present the prizes at a gymnastic competition. No special, danger was feared, and no particular precautions were taken; but as he was leaving the hall and stepping into his carriage, Bresci fired three times, one cf his shots finding lodgment in the king's heart. King Carlos of Portugal, and the Crown Prince Luis fell victims to a revolutionary conspiracy on February 1, 1908. The kingdom had been in a ferment for some time with the republican feeling which led a year or two ago to the abolition of the monarchy. The royal family had been at Villa Vicosa, and it was known that they were about to return to their palace in Lisbon. As they drove through the streets the conspirators opened fire upon them with carbines. The king and the crown prince fell dead, but Queen Amelia and prince, now ex-King Manuel, escaped. Of all the assassinations of crowned heads of recent years perhaps the most dastardly was that of the Em press Elizabeth of Austria, at Geneva ( on September 10, 1898. The em- : press had lived a blameless life, and bad known more than her full share of sorrows. She was famed for her < charities, and her love of traveling was regarded with respect and affection by those who came within her influence. But as she was staying < at Geneva, and was walking quietly * to her hotel the French-Italian an- 1 archist Luccheni attacked and kill- c ad her. Of attempts to assassinate crown- ] ad heads there has been a very large 1 number. Even so beloved a sov- s ereign as Queen Victoria was exposed s three or four times to the shots of would-be-murderers, who were generally thought to have been insane. King Edward was the victim of an attack while traveling in Belgium. * But the most sensational assault on ( wac committed UDon King t 4 VJ U>1 VJ II v?fc/ ? ^ _ Mfonso of Spain, and his bride, the 1 Princess Victoria of England, as they ? ft'ere driving home after their mar- a riage ceremony. A bomb was thrown it the royal procession, and the car- c riage in which- the newly married a pair was driving was so badly shat- e tered that they were forced to com- a plete their journey in another, but I neither the king nor queen was in- e lured. a r-"1 11 ' j Syrup Barrels, Bottles, and Jugs For Sale Cheap t ' / _ We Via.vp a. la/rce miantitv of these fronds on hand, and we are going to sell them cheap. The very thing yon have been looking for for syrup. Buy them now and carry them home, so that you will be ready to grind cane and make syrup any time. i??????? 1 Peoples Drug Company , (THE R E X A E L* STORE) 1 ^ L i sii AniFsiiii.l I new 1 Li /TL LJ lL-dhJ \ Stylish 1 1 ,,| 8 ?wv ? w%. 1 ^l WV TTTa IIT 3C I We Are Prepared to Serve Your Winter Wants 1 Come and Let Us Show You the New Things | \ Hats, Coat Suits, Underwear, Cloaks, Dress Goods, and Silks | V IT WILL, PAY YOU TO SEE THESE BEFORE YOU BUY | When you think 6f Hats think of Hooton's, for here you will find the ? g Hats that please. We have them of every description, shape and quality, as ^ * well as all the New Materials to build Hats. We do not show you the same old ^ ? Hats every time you come, but they come and go all the time. We receive New || ? Shipments almost daily, so if it's New, Fresh Stock you wish, come and see ? a ours and be convinced. ? : :V | I Suits and Long Coats > . I ' ;fg ? We have received many New Suits and Cloaks since you were in last, so f| S come and look, you will be convinced that Hooton's is the place for ladies to w he pleased in Quality, Style, Price, and Fit. We change all garments we sell to @ |j fit free of cost. Come and look, it will cost you nothing, but pay you well. ^ I Underwear 1 -/J We have prepared for the Cold Weather in this department. We have js most anything you wish in Vests, Pants, and Union Suits for all sizes and a ages, in cotton and wool, or silk and wool. Come and look. We shall expect ? you and your daughters, we want your business and need your business to give @ you better service. @ |J| & hooton's ladies store s- i | I Millinery and Dress Making Parlors i ? / We give a Purple Stamp with every 10c You spend with us. ? , SECOND RACE IN BARNWELL. I TRAIN BANDIT PLEADS GUILTY. I???B -i 1. ?j t\ fnr i Poor Physical Condition May Get !llltTl?I17" CUAdII jrcctu OliU LFUUi.au LIVMU*?<^ ?? V _ Clerk of Court. Him Leniency from Court. I hlw onv/rii _______ Barnwell, Oct. 25.?With 20 out New Orleans, Oct. 29.?Howard )f 25 boxes heard from, to-day's pri- g Edwards, the train bandit, who ^ nary to choose a successor to the beld up and robbe(J tbe New York late W. Gilmore Simme, clerk of ..... . .... . -nd WP Jte oreoaredtn , . A. _ . .. Limited tram on the Louisville and ana we are preparea to :ourt, shows the following results. <jo first-class work on i~. v ono ^ ^a Nashville Railroad, near New Or- short notice. Creech 298, Duncan 470, Guess, ,17 ? , o a a 1 1a- leans, on the night of September 4, Remember we make a L17, Hagood, 209, Keel 105, Simms ' , . . srwiaihr nf hnrswhAA. >ao o ? n-. i oa Pleaded guilty m the federal court specialty or norsesnooSne,lmg ShU 1M- CreeCh to-dav to charges of robbing the| ft* _ md Duncan undoubtedly are ma," , - . , , a ? _ jecond race. mails and assaultlnS mai1 clerks- I erate and all work is 1 m Judge Foster deferred sentence. H guaranteed. a Breaks Jail at Rldgeland. Under the law Edwards may re- I I * ' , ceive a maximum sentence of 25 I firi If 0 rADE! AMD I Savannah, Oct. 28.?By burning a years at'hard labor in a federal pris- I 1/ELA OE LUl LiLAlil/ a lole in the floor of the Ridgeland, S. on, but on account of his poor phys- I EHRHARDT, S. C. 8 3., jail and then digging a 15-foot ical condition it is probable that he I _________________ unnel under the jail walls, William will get a lighter sentence. 'ord, a negro convict, escaped during Edwards held up the train single t Saturday night, according to inform- handed, relieved passengers in five 1 " T* T A ?TT TITT T7ITT O- rif\ T ition received here. coaches of their values and rifled XlliiLl Ob uv/.j Ford was sentenced to life impris- the mail car. He then got on the + Successors to W. P. Riley. * mmpnt at Offprman Ga.. for killing engine with the intention of leav- ? Fire Life . man and a woman with an axe. He ing the train near Bay, St. Louis, J ~A ppiHptiV X scaped from the chain gang there Miss., but Engineer Baer struck him X X md was caught on Saturday at on the head with a brass torch and 1 INSURANCE : tidgeland. He is said to have warn- effected his capture. Edwards is a J Office in Town Hall. 'Phone 81 X id officers that he would escape. native of Illinois, but his family is X BAMBERG, S. C. X .gain. ' at Jupiter, Fla. MMMMMtMttMt + MMMt ' ' " v * v . -*? * :